Small Businesses: Carbon Emissions

(asked on 20th December 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department has made an assessment of any potential barriers discouraging SMEs from investing in net zero.


Answered by
Graham Stuart Portrait
Graham Stuart
Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
This question was answered on 12th January 2023

The British Business Bank’s recent representative survey of SMEs found that costs were the most significant barrier referenced by respondents (at 35%) with upfront costs (21%) being cited as the most challenging component. In March 2019, the Government published the outcome of a Call for Evidence entitled ‘Helping Businesses to improve the way they use energy’, which also highlighted the barriers faced by SMEs in terms of reducing their energy usage.

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